Fixes to law enforcement database could take a year

7:56 PM,
Oct. 4, 2013

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine says he should have told the public about the facial recognition system his office launched in June. DeWine was speaking at a press conference in August after The Enquirer's investigation into the use of facial recognition software and BMV license photos. The Enquirer/Glenn Hartong.

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The attorney general's office expects to launch a system this month to help ensure former government employees can't use Ohio's law enforcement database.

But redesigning the database's software to restrict access to features such as facial recognition could take "up to a year or more," Chief Operating Officer Kim Murnieks said Friday. She spoke at a meeting of the advisory board charged by Attorney General Mike DeWine with reviewing the security of the law enforcement database and its facial recognition system.

The changes, some nearly completed and some still in the proposal stage, ...